CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-50671

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.85%

55th percentile - higher than 55% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, in the RDMA/rxe subsystem, a NULL pointer dereference error was found. When queue initialization in rxe_qp_init_req fails, the fields qp->req.task.func and qp->req.task.arg are not initialized, which may lead to a crash.

Risk Assessment

System crash or data corruption due to NULL pointer dereference.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version with a fix that checks these fields before use.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Fix "kernel NULL pointer dereference" error When rxe_queue_init in the function rxe_qp_init_req fails, both qp->req.task.func and qp->req.task.arg are not initialized. Because of creation of qp fails, the function rxe_create_qp will call rxe_qp_do_cleanup to handle allocated resource. Before calling __rxe_do_task, both qp->req.task.func and qp->req.task.arg should be checked.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS